Despite the drought, a man who lives near Platte County's Bean Lake is moving to higher ground, and he's taking his entire home with him.

Terry Moore's home was flooded when the Missouri River spent months out of its banks in 2011. He said the flood damage was so bad that he wanted to pull the house up from its foundation.

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"We built this house, so we've got a lot of blood, sweat and tears in it," Moore said.

House movers carefully moved the house two miles into the bluffs above Bean Lake. Moore said it should help erase the anxiety next time the river rises.

"We just didn't want to go through it anymore," Moore said. "The last five years, it became more of an issue. To the point of when it finally did happen, and the way it happened, there were just so many things out of our control. We decided we wanted to pack up and move on."

He said he and his wife never moved back into the house and spent the last 12 months living in a home that his mother owned. He said it will still take about six more weeks of work before he and his wife can move back in.

Moore said he'll take his chances that the water could still rise high enough to reach his new hillside address.